Damn kids, get outta my neighborhood!
While the Back Bay debates a developer's plan to put an office building on Boylston Street, the hot issue in West Roxbury is a proposal to replace a gym and fabric store off the Route Formerly Known as 1 with a laser tag and pinball joint (pinball?). The Transcript sums up neighborhood concerns, which seem to come down to two words: Loitering teen-agers (because, as we know, Westie kids would never cause trouble by themselves):
"I remember when in the center of West Roxbury, they added a pinball place to the bowling alley ... it quickly went from older people playing bowling to teenagers hanging around the backs of the building," said Settana.
Then again, maybe she's onto something. We certainly afeared for our lives whenever we drove by that bowling alley. Thank God it's a post office now!
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I don't care about the gym,
I don't care about the gym, but hands off Jo-Ann fabric shop - and the thrift store!
Fight the scourge of pinball!
The next thing you know, they could be.... DANCING... to... ROCK N' ROLL!
Pinball is the devil's game, I tell you!
I can see their point.
I can see their point.
bally table king
Dave, You won't see him walking down Spring Street anytime soon.
Um, if he's deaf, dumb and blind, then why is he wearing glasses?
Laser tag
I don't think they're replacing anything - there's an empty building there & I think the existing businesses would stay.
I can't imagine why anyone would mind anything going into that section of Route 1 - it's a horrible, ugly area. Any new business could only improve it. Even tough, pinball-playing kids probably wouldn't want to hang around in that parking lot!
I second that.
That's pretty much what J. and I thought when I read an editorial about the proposed project and its naysayers.
To be honest, we never even thought of it as part of a neighborhood (in the traditional sense).
I'd totally go play laser
I'd totally go play laser tag there. hope they won't mind my sometimes rowdy group of friends, all over the age of 24.
Well one one hand pinball
Well one one hand pinball and laser tag sounds innocent enough, unless it ends up being more than just a 1960's era pinball machine lol.
I was a big fan of Goodtimes in Somerville, may it rest in peace, but that was an entertainment zone that brought all sorts of interesting elements into the area. Luckily the area was mostly uninhabitated, but it still got a bit dicey there at times.
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Monster Golf in Norwood.
The old West Roxbury bowling alley. Yes, after they installed the pinball machines and video games. Used to take the toddler there all the time. She was tough, though, maybe she scared the Fruits and Veggies rabble away.
It wasn't the laser tag
Good Time Emporium became a regional draw for boxing matches, wrestling stuff, and other live entertainment with less "family" and more "teen/adult" and late night potential.
IMHO, that's when the huge crowds and trouble started.
Good Time was also a sports bar
with lots of TVs, and games on the TVs. This also occasionally led to trouble. A big riot occurred after the power failed there during the broadcast of a World Cup match involving Brazil.